A new longitudinal cohort study found that children who were sick more often in early childhood were more likely to continue being sick in later childhood with more moderate to severe infections and require more antibiotic therapies.
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Humans are not lab mice in aseptic environments and I wonder sometimes how “mechanistic” models reconcile this objective fact
And the hygiene hypothesis is more about how humans evolved with many kinds of parasites, and now that we have removed them from our lives, it may be causing an increase in autoimmune disorders.
Prior to modern medicine/ antibiotics & vaccination, plus modern sanitation preventing waste from getting into the water and food, people also dropped like flies until almost age 10.
Fabulous
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This study especially highlights the importance of infection prevention in early life. /5
This is a bold conclusion given the study does not directly address this?
Illness also does DAMAGE to the body.
It's going to be very hard to find an alternative explanation.
The immune system is just one system in the body; it's strengthened just fine by vaccine, preventibg the associated harms from actually catching the infections.
As a mother and stepmother of 5 Kids, grown up in the 90s and early 2000s: no! That was not the case in earlier times.
I see the children today getting one infection after the other and I guess this is because Covid weakens the immunsysteme. 😪